8 hours 30 minutes (approx.)
Daily Tour
13 people
English
Combine a visit to the Whitney Plantation with a pontoon tour through the Cajun Swamp on this small-group tour from New Orleans. You'll start at the Whitney Plantation, where you’ll learn about the stories of the enslaved people who once lived here. You'll then stop for lunch (at your own expense) before continuing to Bayou Sengette State Park for a swamp tour on a high-speed pontoon.
Your full-day plantation and swamp tour begins with a 8:00 am hotel pickup from downtown New Orleans (please allow 30 minutes for pickups).
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Whitney Plantation is located 75 miles and about 1hour from the French Quarter. Travel along Great River Road and marvel at the beautiful Antebellum Mansions along the way.
• Admission Ticket Free
(CLOSE ON TUESDAYS) is on the National Register of Historic Places, the site includes the last surviving example of a true French Creole Barn, what is believed to be the oldest detached kitchen in Louisiana, and the Big House, considered the earliest and best preserved raised Creole cottage in Louisiana, all built by slaves. With the original structures nestled in a working sugar cane field, visitors are sure to marvel at the authentic representation presented at Whitney. Through these restored buildings, museum exhibits, memorial artwork and thousands of first-person slave narratives, Whitney Plantation gives a voice and respect to the slaves, who lived, worked, and died here.
2 hours • Admission Ticket Included
You we travel back down to westwego louisiana to enjoy a sit down lunch at Segnette Landing Restaurant (at your own expense) which is 1 hour drive or 65 miles from Oak Alley Plantation and 10 miles from downtown hotels
• Admission Ticket Included
Enjoy an amazing 1 hour and 30 minutes Cajun Lunch at Segnette Landing restaurant (at your own expense).
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Have you ever wanted to enjoy an enchanting boat ride across a swamp? If your answer is yes, as it probably is, then the place to go is New Orleans via our guided swamp tours. We take you across all the heavenly Cajun Swamp where you take a 90 minutes fast-speed boat ride. The Cajun Captains will navigate their way through the back swamp. You will learn about Louisiana Wetlands, the inhabitants of the swamp, the life and habits of the American Alligators. Our experience Captains will take you back to the history of Louisiana Bayou and Swamp exploration days.
2 hours • Admission Ticket Included
Your full-day plantation and swamp tour ends with a 30 minutes hotel drop-off.
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free